We support more than 170 organizations working with some of India’s most vulnerable girls, women and other gender and sexual minorities.
We focus on finding partners who work with adolescent girls to build an understanding of gender, and impart critical life skills, or those support women in preventing gender-based violence. We also partner with organisations that create enable access to rights for girls, women, and members of gender and sexual minorities.
The end goal of all such work is a future in which all such groups and communities are free from the restrictive reality that they are subjected to.
Collaboration is key to our work in this area, too. We support adolescent groups/collectives for girls and women, to come together to learn, build solidarity and collectively address issues they face and advocate for change. This in turn strengthens response mechanisms, such as access to crisis intervention, counselling, shelter, health services and compensation, to enable girls and women live a violence-free life.
The on-ground work of our partners has resulted in the formation of collectives that provide girls with the agency to fight discrimination; a cadre of peer leaders of adolescent girls has been created to sustain the efforts in the community.
On the Education front, the Azim Premji University offers courses for peer leaders from the adolescent girl groups we support. We have also facilitated admissions to undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for girls at our University through our partner organisations.
Our partners also provide legal aid to survivors of violence through structured casework/case management. This has helped survivors of violence access government compensation and initiate formal income generation.
Our work also emphasises the rights and well-being of gender and sexual minorities, by enabling their access to basic rights, shelter, health, legal aid and livelihood opportunities.
Gender Justice is also an area that necessitates sustained and extensive engagement with relevant stakeholders such as police, panchayat, child welfare officers and community leaders. We also collaborate with government officials at block and district levels, to strengthen the implementation of central and state government schemes.
Our work in the area of Gender Justice is through our partners.
